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Watch your elbow position when you sink. You often see people start to loosen the back as the reps mount, and the elbows start to come up. This leads to leaning forward a bit. It's only one possible issue, but a common one. Can you get a video?

Watch your elbow position when you sink. You often see people start to loosen the back as the reps mount, and the elbows start to come up. This leads to leaning forward a bit. It's only one possible issue, but a common one. Can you get a video?

Not sure what is happening with bench. It's always been a weak point for me (lol, which indicates I have a strong point). My first rep is usually so slow in the negative portion of the lift, that it's almost like doing a negative rep and I think that is sapping my strength some. Gotta speed it up.

Been experienced odd knee pain and overall weakness on squats lately, so I dropped the weight from 270 to 225 to see what happened. Felt fine. It felt heavier than it should have, but I focused on form and got the reps w/o any pain. I'll move it up 20 pounds next week and see how that feels. Then I'll keep going for a couple of weeks until I'm back where I was.

Have I wussed out if I strap up for cleans? My wrists are not enjoying the lift as much as the rest of my body.